If you are planning to serve the government through the Public Service Commission (PSC), you will have to think twice starting July 1, 2019.
PSC has stopped the most coveted permanent and pensionable terms and, announced that all entry-level State workers will be engaged for a 3-year-contract that will only be renewed on satisfactory performance.
This means that junior civil servants will join their job group S and above senior colleagues in the contractual terms of employment.
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Stephen Kirogo stated, on Tuesday, that the radical change is aimed at taming the ballooning government wage bill. PSC added that the tough policy will reduce costs related to retrenchment and retirement benefits.
If you join PSC, you will only be entitled to a service gratuity.
“It will help shrink that expanding public wage bill. It will also allow people to move away freely without being limited, while the Public Service Commission will also be able to bring in new skills at whatever level of employment,” said Kirogo as reported by Business Daily.
Kirogo has defended the policy despite fears that it will worsen the unemployment problem in the country.
“This is a global practice and even successful governments have adopted that system as a way of employment. We hope we will get support so that we start managing this issue of the escalating wage bill,” he said.
Another issue affected by the radical changes at PSC is job grades. They have been reduced from 23 to 17.